Got a combat sports boner at this concept & I've discussed it before myself.
Boxing/MMA hybrid rules:
-In the Octagon
-MMA Gloves or MMA-like Gloves with more protected fingers to avoid eye poking issues
-3 to 5, 5 minute rounds
-Boxing only, no wrestling, grappling, kicking, etc.
So like Ronda, you think that a MMA fighter eat a boxer everyday?
Any reasonable, non-biased person knows the more fighting styles one has the better chance they have to beat someone with one fighting style. Idk about every MMA guy beating every boxer, but if we were matchmaking MMA guys vs boxers evenly for a hundred fights, 200 fights or whatever I have zero doubt the MMA guys would have more wins than boxers.
Knowing one fighting style at a high level is great, but the problem lines in the deficiencies of not knowing all the other fighting styles the multiple disciplined fighter has. And this goes with anything & its why Ronda got her ass beat. Ronda knew Judo better than anyone in the UFC. Holly knew kickboxing, boxing & had more grappling, BJJ, wrestling, etc experience having trained for boxing at a MMA gym where she would often spar other fighters in their discipline.
There were a bunch of guys in the early days of the UFC who only knew one fighting style & they got merked eventually to guys who knew multiple fighting styles. Same thing would happen to boxers overall. Some boxers would win, hell some might excel & adapt, but overall the disadvantage of knowing only one fighting style is too big of a hurdle to overcome in a large sample size of fights.
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